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Andrew Jackson: “It is the acknowledged attribute of free institutions that under them the empire of reason and law is substituted for…”

On the recordJanuary 15, 1833
It is the acknowledged attribute of free institutions that under them the empire of reason and law is substituted for the power of the sword.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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